A Grafton Memorial Day tale of love and jealousy
Owen Curtis plots to win Alice Wrightington using forged hope of marriage while Frank Bryce’s return from New York tightens the knot. Alice, torn by past vows and a future with Curtis, faces a moral reckoning as a telegrams weave deception, devotion, and a final test of trust.
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Alice
Curtis
Sonoma
Frank
Tranklin Bryce
Mi 1
New York
Grafton
Owen Curtis
Bryce
George Curtis
Uncle
Frank Bryce
George
Europe
Mercury of Grafton
Goodby
Grangp
Jerry Crowder’s Six Horses Ride of the Calamity
In a May dawn Virginia City coach run Jerry Crowder leads six horses on a Geiger grade descent. A brake staff breaks and Crowder orders, Catch me by the belt and hold me on. The team piles on the road but all horses survive with quick rescue and repairs, the coach continuing onward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerry
Truckee Meadows
Dickey
Daring Balloon Slide Thrills Los Angeles Crowd
Sailor Simon Nicks risked life in a 1500 foot balloon slide at Los Angeles seen by a monster crowd. Dressed in ordinary clothes he slid along a rope, swung and inverted, creating near misses and roaring reactions from spectators and an accompanying aeronaut Hudson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ufe
Simon Nicks
Nicks
Los Angeles
Hudson
Horror of the Death Guillotine at French Guiana
The account describes the headsman and his aide in the penal colony of French Guiana. Executions occur in Ile Royale prison yard with convicts selected from among detainees. The ritual includes breakfast by charity sisters before the headman straps, the squad aims, and the fatal blade's thud.
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Eugene de Grave
Devil's Island
French Guiana
M. de Grave
New York
Deibler
Paria
Ile Royale
Sisters of Charity
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Leonard Warren
She
Aunt Polly
Len Warren
Sol
Boys In Blue
Jerry Crowder
Concord
Virginia City
Nev
Steamboat Springs
Truckee River
Donner Lake
Sierras
California
Carson City
Ivand
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